Originally shared by Charles Younger
It reads:
“The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.”
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/newspaper-in-1912-linked-coal-to-climate-change-2018-8?r=US&IR=T